Above: Casey Tokeshi (third from right) shares a meal with colleagues in Kenya. Casey was placed with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT in Nairobi, Kenya. In the first year of my fellowship, I participated in two projects in the … Read more
Who Stays Behind? Understanding the Implications of Male Labor Migration on Women-Headed Households in Western Nepal
Above: Jima Community Meeting: Lexi (Research & Learning Specialist), Nilanjana (MEL Assistant), and Neetu (CARM Officer) meet with the Jima community during the learning agenda scoping mission in Mugu. 📸: Lexi Kirton On one of my most recent trips to … Read more
Humans are Complex: Why Our Approaches to Nutrition Behavior Change Must be Too
Above: A local market in Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia. 📸: Bailey Adams There is a tendency amongst medical professionals, nutritionists, and development practitioners to believe human behavior is rational and grounded in logic. We think that if people are given the … Read more
Answers to Questions We Don’t Know Exist: “Localization” and Local Knowledge in Guinea
Above: A 4×4 navigates a difficult patch of muddy road. The quality of roads, and challenges of transportation, can be explained to distant staff in a meeting or report; but that explanation might mean relatively little compared to actually navigating … Read more
Boosting Cooperatives to Support Farmers in the Philippines
Above: Leland Fellow Felipe Cook (left) with colleagues at CDP grand launch event in September, 2022. Food security in the Philippines is facing steep challenges. Nearly three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the Philippine economy. As one of the … Read more
A Secret Ingredient: Women’s Agency and Food Security in Senegal
Above: A Debbo Galle Group during a focus group discussion with Leland Fellow Natalie Petrulla (seated, in blue chair) and Debbo Galle Coordinator, Marcel Yanga, in the northern region of Saint Louis, Senegal. It is important to note that LGBTQI+ rights … Read more
Investigating the Enabling Environment of Food Security in Ethiopia
Above: Natalie Volin, 11th Class Leland Fellow. Over the past year at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), I have worked on the evaluation and learning activities of the Strengthen Productive Safety Net Program Institutions and Resilience Development Food Security Activity, … Read more
The Right to Seed: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Autonomy
A parent carrying their infant inspects their machamba (farm) in Chemba district, Mozambique. 📸: Onyịnye Alheri, placed with the UN World Food Programme in Mozambique. Seeds are life. For as long as humans have cultivated crops, we have freely saved, stored, … Read more
Amplifying Children’s Voices to End Hunger
Above: Elizabeth Margolis, 11th Class Leland Fellow. As a Leland Fellow with World Vision International, I have spent the last year working on advocacy to end global hunger. I have been very focused on amplifying the voices of people affected by … Read more
Announcing 11th Class of Leland International Fellows
The Hunger Center announces the newest class of Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows and their placements. These 14 leaders will spend the next two years supporting global food and nutrition security at the programmatic and policy levels as they develop … Read more